Those who say the age gap is throwing them off and that this is predatory never studied history before. This isn't set in modern times, in the past it was common for kingdoms to sell their kids off to richer countries, the only fiction here is that they're both guys. Still, MC absolutely wasn't interested in ML when he was a child, he was treating him more like a younger brother he cared for. He never blushed next to him and the fact that he didn't correct him for calling him "Beloved" and "Bride" is because well, they were meant to marry each other and MC truly believed that ML would marry a woman when he came of age. So guys chill don't drop it, they're both adults now, everything's legal, the MC isn't a pedo just because he was ordered to live as a kid's bride for few years, nothing ever happened between them
EDIT; I'm NOT normalizing marriages of that time, it was in most cases predatory but in this manhwa MC is a normal guy, he saw ML as a child so he never even thought of him as a romantic partner. I'm just trying to say that you shouldn't call MC a pedo just because he was thrown into a marriage like that to save his country
Those who say the age gap is throwing them off and that this is predatory never studied history before. This isn't set in modern times, in the past it was common for kingdoms to sell their kids off to richer countries, the only fiction here is that they're both guys. Still, MC absolutely wasn't interested in ML when he was a child, he was treating him more like a younger brother he cared for. He never blushed next to him and the fact that he didn't correct him for calling him "Beloved" and "Bride" is because well, they were meant to marry each other and MC truly believed that ML would marry a woman when he came of age. So guys chill don't drop it, they're both adults now, everything's legal, the MC isn't a pedo just because he was ordered to live as a kid's bride for few years, nothing ever happened between them
EDIT;
I'm NOT normalizing marriages of that time, it was in most cases predatory but in this manhwa MC is a normal guy, he saw ML as a child so he never even thought of him as a romantic partner. I'm just trying to say that you shouldn't call MC a pedo just because he was thrown into a marriage like that to save his country